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Un expert chargé par la justice américaine d'étudier les causes de
l'effondrement de la banque d'affaires Lehman Brothers en septembre 2008 a mis en ...
· Former chief Dick Fuld and accountants Ernst & Young criticised in 2,200-page
report
· Claims that buyer Barclays received assets it was not entitled to
· Fuld tried to involve Gordon Brown to fast-track Barclays rescue
A court-appointed US bankruptcy examiner has concluded that there are grounds for legal claims
against top Lehman Brothers bosses and auditor Ernst & Young for signing off misleading
accounting statements in the run-up to
the collapse of the Wall Street bank in 2008 which sparked the worst financial crisis since
the Great Depression.
A judge last night unsealed a 2,200-page forensic report by expert Anton Valukis into Lehman's
collapse which includes scathing criticism of accounting "gimmicks" used by the failing bank to
buy itself time. These included a contentious technique known as "repo 105" which temporarily
boosted the bank's balance sheet by as much as $50bn (£33bn).
The exhaustive account reveals that Barclays, which
bought Lehman's US businesses out of bankruptcy, got certain equipment and assets it was not
entitled to. And it reveals that during Lehman's final few hours, chief executive Dick Fuld tried
to get Gordon Brown involved to over-rule Britain's Financial Services Authority when it refused
to fast-track a rescue by Barclays.
With Wall Street shaken by the demise of Bear
Stearns in March 2008, Valukis said confidence in Lehman eroded: "To buy itself more time, to
maintain that critical confidence, Lehman painted a misleading picture of its financial
condition."
The examiner's report found evidence to support "colorable claims", meaning plausible claims,
against Fuld and three successive chief financial officers - Chris O'Meara, Erin Callan and Ian
Lowitt.
Valukis said the bank tried to lower its leverage ratio, a key measure for credit rating
agencies, through a device dubbed "repo 105" through which it temporarily sold assets, with an
obligation to re-purchase them days later, at the end of financial quarters in order to get a
temporary influx of cash. Lehman's own financial staff described this as an "accounting gimmick"
and a "lazy way" to meet balance sheet targets.
A senior Lehman vice-president, Matthew Lee, tried to blow the whistle by alerting top management
and Ernst & Young. But the auditing firm "took virtually no action to investigate".
During the bank's final hours in September 2008, Fuld tried desperately to strike a rescue deal
with Barclays but the FSA would not allow the British bank an exemption from seeking
time-consuming shareholder approval. The chancellor, Alistair Darling, declined to intervene and
Fuld appealed to the US treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, to contact the prime minister.
"Fuld asked Paulson to call prime minister Gordon Brown, but Paulson said he could not do that,"
says the examiner's report. "Fuld asked Paulson to ask president Bush to call Brown, but Paulson
said he was working on other ideas."
In a "brainstorming" session, Fuld then suggested getting the president's brother, Jeb Bush, who
was a Lehman adviser, to get the White House to lean on Downing Street.
Barclays eventually bought the remnants of Lehman's Wall Street operation from receivership for
$1.75bn - a sum that has enraged certain bankruptcy creditors who believe it was a windfall for
the British bank.
The examiner's report finds grounds for claims against Barclays for taking assets it was not
entitled to, including office equipment and client records belonging to a Lehman affiliate,
although it says these were not of material value to the deal - the equipment was worth less than
$10m.
A lawyer for Fuld last night rejected the examiner's findings. Patricia Hynes of Allen &
Overy said Fuld did not structure or negotiate the repo 105 transactions, nor was he aware of
their accounting treatment. She added that Fuld "throughout his career faithfully and diligently
worked in the interests of Lehman and its stakeholders".
A spokesman for Ernst & Young, which is headquartered in London, told Reuters the firm had no
immediate comment because it was yet to review the findings.
Quel est le futur de l'internet ? Telle est la question que l’Internet Center de Elon University et le
Center’s Internet and American Life Project de l’institut américain Pew
Research pourla quatrième édition de son étude The Future of
Internetà près de 900 experts utilisateurs d'Internet.
Sepp Blatter (left), the FIFA president, has
explained why there won’t be
goal-line technology at this year’s World Cup, saying he wants the sport to maintain a
“human element” and that all levels of soccer, from 6-year-old kids to
open-goal-missing Gonzalo Higuaín of Real Madrid, need to be played with the same rules.
Whatever you say, Sepp. I hope for your sake a Spain or Italy or Brazil don’t get knocked
out of the tournament because of a controversial goal; you won’t hear the end of it.
So mighty Sepp, who’s apparently one of the most powerful men on Earth according to someone
who appeared on World Football Daily the other
day (again, a fine podcast, well worth the $5/month I pay), had this to say:
No matter which technology is applied, at the end of the day a decision will have to be taken by
a human being. This being the case, why remove the responsibility from the referee to give it to
someone else? It is often the case that, even after a slow-motion replay, ten different experts
will have ten different opinions on what the decision should have been.
I love how we’re praising the idea of debating outright wrongheaded decision because it
makes the sport exciting. What’s so wrong with wanting to see the right decisions being
made, even if it’s at the “expense” of post-match pub debates?
But whatever, I’ve already written
quite a bit about the subject.
British IT expert held captive for two years after Baghdad kidnap tells of regret at not
attempting to escape in early days
Peter Moore, the British IT expert who spent more than two years in captivity after being
kidnapped in Iraq, tonight revealed how he regretted that he and his fellow captives did not try
to escape during the early days of their detention by killing a guard.
Moore, a computer consultant from Lincoln, said he had had a chance to flee when one of the two
men watching over him fell ill.
The 36-year-old was seized with four bodyguards from a government building in Baghdad in May
2007. He was released in December last year and arrived home on New Year's Day.
He told Channel 4 News that one of his fellow captives was asked to treat the sick guard and
the hostages discussed injecting him with air bubbles and attempting to overpower the remaining
captor.
"I was concerned it was going to go out of the frying pan into the fire. There were two of them
with us but 400 outside. I think we should have done it in hindsight. It was the best chance we
had. I think one or two would have been killed and one made it out.
"There was a woman downstairs with a child and we would have had to kill he too."
Moore paid tribute to the other four men seized, saying he was "very grateful" for their help and
the medical treatment they gave him after his abduction.
Jason Creswell, Jason Swindlehurst and Alec Maclachlan were shot dead and their bodies returned
to Britain last year. Alan McMenemy, the fourth bodyguard, is also believed dead.
Moore was training ministry of finance workers how to spot misspent money when aabout 100 police
in 20 vehicles took over the building. Initially he believed he was being arrested. It was only
when they began removing his clothes during the ride to Sadr City that he realised otherwise.
Moore, who has previously talked of being subjected to mock executions, said he was beaten on a
near daily basis and once subjected to severe punishment for allegedly breaking a lock.
"They tied my hands behind my back and put a chair next to the door. I was made to stand on the
chair with my hands over door and they pulled the chair out to leave me hanging. They did that
four or five times. It was very painful. I was screaming in pain."
He contested Foreign Office claims that his kidnappers, from a Shia organisation, Asaib Ahl
al-Haq, or the League of the Righteous, had requested a news blackout and insisted they wanted to
publicise their message.
"They felt they complied with everything the British embassy said but still were not getting what
they wanted," Moore said.
But Moore believed he was moved to Basra and then Hilla around three months later. In a room next
door was an unidentified hostage who he heard making a proof of life video.
Iraqi intelligence sources told the Guardian the British captives were never made aware that they
had crossed the border.
The Foreign Office has continued to insist there was no evidence that Moore was held in Iran,
despite claims by Iraqi intelligence that they told their British counterparts and the Foreign
Office that the hostages were taken across the border.
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Minister says building work on 250mph route cutting journey times between London and Birmingham
could begin in 2017
The government today unveiled plans for a £30bn high-speed rail network, with the first
phase between London and Birmingham opening in 2026.
Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, said building work on the 250mph route could begin in 2017
once a formal public consultation has been completed.
The route linking the capital and England's second city, which will cut journey times from 84
minutes to 49 minutes, will originate at London Euston and pass through Old Oak Common, in west
London, where a Crossrail interchange will transport passengers to Heathrow airport.
Controversially, the line will then run through the Chiltern hills in Buckinghamshire, past
picturesque villages such as Wendover, before arriving at an intermediate stop near Birmingham
airport. There will be a new terminal in Birmingham city centre, and the main body of the line
will sweep through the Trent valley to join existing tracks north of Lichfield, where journeys
will continue to Manchester and Scotland at conventional speeds.
"The time has come for Britain to plan seriously for high-speed rail between our major cities,"
said Adonis. "The high-speed line from London to the Channel Tunnel has been a clear success, and
many European and Asian countries now have extensive and successful high-speed networks. I
believe high-speed rail has a big part to play in Britain's future."
In a nod to Tory objections over the Heathrow proposal, Adonis said the case for a station would
be examined by the former Tory transport secretary Lord Mawhinney. "A complex decision of this
nature should not be taken in a knee-jerk fashion but after a full analysis of the facts and
opinions," Adonis said.
The first phase will cost up to £17.4bn for 128 miles of track from London to the west
Midlands, with the full 330-mile network costing £30bn.
The transport secretary also unveiled the blueprint for a wider network, with a Y-shaped route
splitting off from Birmingham to go eastwards to Manchester and westwards to Sheffield and Leeds.
Journey times between London and Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield would come down from about two
hours 10 minutes to 75 minutes when the new network is in place.
Formal planning for the route from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds will be completed next
summer, with a consultation to follow in 2012. The route to Scotland would be completed on
existing lines under the current proposal, even when the Manchester and Leeds sections are
completed.
Despite the Mawhinney gesture, the Conservatives attacked the detailed proposal. The Tories have
pledged to build a high-speed network instead of a third runway at Heathrow, and to start
construction in 2015.
Theresa Villiers, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Labour have betrayed the vision we set
out three years ago for [high-speed rail]. In leaving out Heathrow and setting out plans that
give no firm guarantees north of the Midlands, Labour's plans are flawed both by lack of ambition
and undermined by their inability to grasp the basic truth that high-speed rail should be an
alternative to a third runway, not an addition to it."
The government-backed company that drew up the plans, HS2, believes there is no business case for
a direct link to Heathrow airport and some industry experts argue that the Old Oak Common
interchange provides an equally good link.
Ralph Smyth, of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, described elements of the plan as "a major
concern" and called on the government to listen to local people.
"By using existing and disused transport corridors as well as tunnelling, the impact on the
Chilterns is less than feared," he said. "But the impact on the Warwickshire, where the line is
proposed to run through open countryside, is a major concern.
"There is a strong need for more than just fine-tuning. The firm commitment to community
consultation made by Lord Adonis must be backed up by real engagement and flexibility. As with
the Channel Tunnel rail link, local people's contribution can help turn a contentious route into
something that works both national and locally."
Nicolas Sarkozy a réclamé jeudi à Paris une nouvelle méthode de travail
sur le réchauffement climatique, dénonçant avec véhémence la
"fiction" d'une négociation continue avec tous les pays de la planète."Si vous faites
comme pour Copenhague, vous allez à l'échec, c'est certain", a-t-il lancé
à...
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11, 2010)
Seizing on an absurd claim spread by right-wing blogs that President Obama wants to ban sport
fishing, Glenn Beck stated on his Fox News program that Obama is attempting to prohibit U.S.
citizens from fishing on some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, and great lakes "by
executive order." In fact, there is no evidence of any such order, but rather a task force which
seeks to "better manage" -- not ban -- recreational fishing alongside other uses of ocean,
coasts, and lakes.
Beck forwards fishing ban myth
Beck: "No more fishing. ... People are losing their rights." On the March 10
edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck, Beck stated:
BECK: A new report out today says it's a move to appease the environmental groups, and just like
before, without your consent, done in darkness by executive order. I told you a year ago this
would happen. I'm not some prophet by any stretch of the imaginations. The New York
Times said this man would do this.
The report claims that Obama will no longer listen to the public as he tries to prohibit U.S.
citizens from fishing on some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, and great lakes, even some
inland waters. No more fishing. Really? Yeah, apparently some environmentalists want to save the
fish. Forget about the frickin' fish. People are losing their rights. Who's more important: the
fish or you?
He later revisited the topic, stating, "How about a fishing ban? A fishing ban that would put
jobs at risk in the middle of an economic crisis, but beyond that, you and your son being told
you can't go there to fish! What the hell is happening to us? How are people not seeing this?
He's going to do it through executive powers, without consulting the public."
Myth is based on ESPN column later acknowledged to have "errors" and lack of "balance"
ESPNOutdoors.com has acknowledged "errors," lack of "balance" in piece sparking
controversy. In a March 9 piece on ESPNOutdoors.com, Robert Montgomery
wrote that the "Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy
that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great
Lakes, and even inland waters." ESPNOutdoors.com executive editor Steve Bowman later posted the
following acknowledgement on the site:
ESPNOutdoors.com inadvertently contributed to a flare-up Tuesday when we posted the latest piece
in a series of stories on President Barack Obama's newly created Ocean Policy Task Force, a
column written by Robert Montgomery, a conservation writer for BASS since 1985. Regrettably, we
made several errors in the editing and presentation of this installment. Though our series has
included numerous news stories on the topic, this was not one of those -- it was an opinion
piece, and should clearly have been labeled as commentary.
And while our series overall has examined several sides of the topic, this particular column was
not properly balanced and failed to represent contrary points of view. We have reached out to
people on every side of the issue and reported their points of view -- if they chose to respond
-- throughout the series, but failed to do so in this specific column.
No evidence of executive order to ban fishing
Task force plan seeks to "better manage," not ban recreational
fishing. In its September 10, 2009,
interim report, the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force recommended that the administration
implement "coastal and marine spatial planning," which has been
described as ocean "zoning." The interim report states that such a system "will allow for the
reduction of cumulative impacts from human uses on marine ecosystems, provide greater certainty
for the public and private sector in planning new investments, and reduce conflicts among uses
and, between using and preserving the environment to sustain critical ecological, economic, and
cultural services for this and future generations." A December 9, 2009, task force report
discussing coastal and marine spatial planning in more detail
states that "CMSP provides an effective process to better manage a range of social, economic,
and cultural uses, including" commerce and transportation, commercial fishing, conservation,
mining, oil and gas exploration and development and recreational fishing, among many others.
Nowhere in these two reports did the task force propose a ban on recreational fishing.
Fishing columnist Jeffrey Weeks: "ESPN should be ashamed."
Charlotte Fishing Examiner.com columnist Jeffrey Weeks
wrote on March 9: "In what may be the worst example of outdoor sports reporting in the
history of America, ESPN has claimed that President Barack Obama is on the verge of banning
recreational fishing." Weeks added: "Am I going to agree with everything that this task force
does? Probably not. Issues like access to fishery grounds and over-regulation of species without
sound scientific data are legitimate concerns. However, in no way shape or form is the task force
President Obama created about to ban recreational fishing. That is silly. ESPN should be
ashamed."
Marine biologist Larry Crowder: "It's not an environmentalist
manifesto." The Christian Science Monitor
reported on March 9 that Larry Crowder, a marine biology professor at Duke University, stated
of the task force: "It's not an environmentalist manifesto." Crowded added: "It's multiple-use
planning for the environment, and making sure various uses ... are sustainable." The
Monitor further reported that "Obama has said he will not override protections put in
place by Presidents Clinton and Bush that established recreational fishermen as a special class"
and that "nonpartisan experts say the task force has already made strides in better recognizing
various stakeholder groups, including recreational fishermen, and that it doesn't intend to
undermine the ability of states to manage their natural resources, as many fishermen fear."
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African crop yields wither, along with the Amazon rainforest; Himalayan glaciers disappear by
2035. These are the erroneous predictions ascribed to the most recent report from the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)--a document reviewed by some 2,500 scientists
and other experts as well as vetted by more than 190 countries. So does the fact that a few
errors crept into a more than 3,000 page report merit a revision of IPCC processes?
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The experts and chili cook-off participants are adamant on the issue: No beans in chili! Do you
like beans in your chili?
If yes, what type of beans? What type of meat do you use? Beef and pork are favorites at the
cook-offs, but you are only limited by your imagination. Some prefer ground beef, others swear by
chunks of meat. Venison and chicken chilis are now quite popular. Spicy or not? Tell us what you
think.
Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson stated that appeals court nominee Judge
Robert Chatigny "gained notoriety" for "fight[ing] the execution of convicted serial killer and
rapist Michael Ross," adding that "[s]ome are concerned he may be biased in favor of sex
offenders." However, an appeals court panel -- which included former Bush Attorney General
Michael Mukasey -- found that Chatigny's actions in the case were "reasonable" and "not motivated
by any bias."
Carlson: "Some are concerned that he may be biased in favor of sex offenders"
Carlson: "Some are concerned" Chatigny "may be biased in favor of sex
offenders." On the March 10 Fox & Friends, Carlson reported that "today's
hearing for Judge Robert Chatigny now postponed after a prosecutor from his home state called him
a 'judicial loose cannon.' " Carlson added: "Chatigny gained notoriety five years ago for trying
to fight the execution of convicted serial killer and rapist Michael Ross, known as 'The Roadside
Strangler.' Some are concerned he may be biased in favor of sex offenders."
Fox News.com: "Republicans are taking a hard look at Chatigny's role in the Ross
proceedings which they say could be disqualifying." A March 9 FoxNews.com
article reported, that Chatigny's Senate hearing was postponed "after the panel received a
letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting the candidate as a judicial loose cannon and after
Republicans raised concerns about bias in favor of sex offenders." The article further stated
that "Republicans are taking a hard look at Chatigny's role in the Ross proceedings which they
say could be disqualifying." Despite noting that Chatigny was ultimately "cleared of misconduct,"
the FoxNews.com
article quoted Michael O'Hare, a Connecticut assistant state's attorney, stating that "Judge
Chatigny completely abandoned the role of neutral and detached magistrate and instead became an
advocate for the position held by the parties who were seeking to stop the execution of Michael
Ross." The headline of the article asserted that Chatigny "supported serial killer":
Appeals court panel found Chatigny's actions "reasonable" and "not motivated by any bias"
In 2005 conference call, Chatigny strongly expressed concern that Ross' lawyer was not
sufficiently investigating evidence regarding Ross' mental competency. In 1987, Michael
Ross was found guilty of the
murder of four of the eight women he confessed to killing. The New York Times
reported that Ross "did not fight the state's execution plans. He has said repeatedly that he
is prepared to die -- that he hoped his death would ease the pain of his victims' relatives --
and he repeatedly waived his rights to appeal." The Times reported that others had
argued that "Mr. Ross is simply masking a desire to commit suicide." On January 29, 2005, the
Hartford Courant reported that during a conference call hours before Ross' scheduled
execution, Chatigny "in often brutally frank language, made it clear he thought Paulding [Ross'
lawyer] should be doing more" (accessed via Nexis):
With the hours counting down on
Michael Ross' life, Chief U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny initiated an extraordinary
telephone conference call Friday afternoon in which he pleaded with Ross' attorney to make sure
that in supporting his client's determination to die, he wasn't making "the biggest mistake of
[his] life.''
"What you are doing is terribly, terribly wrong,'' Chatigny told attorney T.R. Paulding, who has
maintained that Ross is clear-headed and voluntarily choosing death. "No matter how well
motivated you are, you have a client whose competence is in serious doubt and you don't know what
you're talking about.
"I see this happening and I can't live with it myself, which is why I'm on the phone right now.
It's wrong. What you're doing is wrong.''
Alternating between pleas and threats, Chatigny chastised Paulding's representation, saying a
lawyer for a death-row inmate has an obligation to try to persuade him to fight for his life.
"I warn you, Mr. Paulding, between now and whatever happens Sunday night, you better be prepared
to live with yourself for the rest of your life,'' the judge said. "And you better be prepared to
deal with me if in the wake of this an investigation is conducted.''
Chatigny told Paulding that if an investigation corroborated recent claims that prison officials
had mistreated Ross and other death-row inmates -- and that the psychological effects of Ross'
prison conditions might have driven him to prefer death -- "I'll have your law license.''
The conference call -- which included eight lawyers respectively representing the attorney
general, the chief state's attorney, the public defenders office and Ross' father -- came after courts twice rebuffed Chatigny's rulings
halting Ross' execution. In both cases, Chatigny agreed with arguments that there are questions
about Ross' mental capacity to forgo his appeals.
Although there was nothing formally pending in Chatigny's court in either case, the judge said he
was compelled to bring the lawyers together, telling Paulding: "I believe that as an officer of
the court who is facilitating the execution of his client, I as the chief judge of the court have
to be sure that you are doing everything that one should do ethically in this situation.''
For most of the next 55 minutes, Chatigny, in often brutally frank language, made it clear he
thought Paulding should be doing more.
Ross was later ruled to be competent and was
executed May 13, 2005.
Appeals court, which included Mukasey, found Chatigny's concern "reasonable" and "not
motivated by any bias." As the Hartford Courant reported on January 28, 2006,
Chatigny was "cleared of misconduct by a review panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals." The
panel consisted of three judges, including Michael Mukasey, who went on to become President
Bush's attorney general. The Courant stated of the panel's findings (from Nexis):
"Without doubt, Judge Chatigny's actions were unusual,'' a special committee consisting of three
judges concluded. "But in the judge's reasonable view, the circumstances thrust on him called for
unusual action. ... ''
Those circumstances included challenges by family members and lawyers that serial killer Michael
Ross was not mentally competent to waive further appeals and "volunteer'' for execution, and the
staunch defense of Ross' competence and right to choose his fate by attorney T.R. Paulding.
[...]
The special committee -- composed of 2nd Circuit Chief Judge John W. Walker Jr., circuit Judge
Pierre Leval and Chief Judge Michael Mukasey of the Southern District of New York -- said in its
45-page report, "It is fairly arguable ... that some of what [Chatigny] said was susceptible to
misunderstanding and might better have been left unsaid.
"We are persuaded, however, that the judge's actions were not motivated by any bias in favor of
Ross or against the death penalty but only by the judge's reasonable perception that the
discharge of his own judicial duty ... required that he take forceful steps on Ross' behalf.''
[...]
Chatigny, in correspondence with the special committee to answer the judges' inquiries, stated
that some of his remarks to Paulding were "too vehement,'' and also said that he apologized to
Paulding the next day.
"He added that he regretted both his choice of words and any embarrassment he may have caused to
the court system,'' the report states of Chatigny.
Several legal experts defended Chatigny's actions at the time
NYT: Legal ethics expert said, "These are extraordinary acts by the judge but
the situation is extraordinary." A February 2, 2005, New York Times
article reported that Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., described as "a professor at the University of
Pennsylvania Law School who has written extensively on legal ethics and professional
responsibility," said of Chatigny's actions: ''These are extraordinary acts by the judge but the
situation is extraordinary."
NYT: UConn Law School associate dean: "[W]ith a man's life on the line this was
for keeps. Death is unique in the law. There's nothing you can do after Ross is dead to fix
it.'' The same Times article reported: "Paul Chill, a clinical professor and
associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Connecticut School of Law, said focusing
on Judge Chatigny's conduct in the call detracted from the larger issue. 'He clearly stretched
the bounds of propriety, if not judicial ethics, in doing what he did,' Professor Chill said.
'But with a man's life on the line this was for keeps. Death is unique in the law. There's
nothing you can do after Ross is dead to fix it.' ''
Connecticut Bar Association co-chairman: Chatigny's "conduct may seem unusual, but this
was an unusual case." A February 3, 2005, News-Times article
reported that James
"Tim" Shearin, then the co-chairman of the Connecticut Bar Association's Federal Practice
Section, "said that Chatigny's conduct may seem unusual, but this was an unusual case." The
article quoted Shearin as saying, "This case is unlike anything else we've seen on the
Connecticut landscape. ... The sense is a judge has inherent authority if he believes the
attorney is not conducting himself properly. He was reacting to evidence that came up."
Unlimited Detail is definitely the most
interesting technology demo I stumbled on today. In a nutshell: current 3D technology is based on
polygons. Each 3D shape you see on the screen is made out of multiple straight facets (polygons).
The more polygons (or facets), the rounder and more natural it seems. The current battle is all
about polygon counts -- how many polygons can a certain graphics card render per unit of time.
This metric has been rising 20% per year on average, for the past few years.
But polygons aren't the only way to display 3D information. Unlimited Detail works with dots,
rather than polygons. The thinking is that if we use 3D "pixels" instead of flat shapes, objects
can be far more realistic and lifelike because you don't have as many straight surfaces. Each
object is composed of a mass of "dots" virtually positioned in 3D space.
This, in itself, is not a novel idea. A very similar principle exists in voxel technology. What is different about
Unlimited Detail is the way they select what pixels to present. And this is where the "snake oil"
bit comes in, because there is absolutely no hard proof for this one. They say they're applying
"search technologies" to figure out exactly what pixels to show. In other words, while an entire
3D scene may contain billions of "points", you may only have 1024x768 (786,432) pixels on your
monitor. So if there's a very fast way to figure out which of these points must be shown on each
of the pixels, you get very fast 3D technology.
And this is what Unlimited Detail say they can do. There's an impressive (if quite smug)
screencast after the jump, with a good explanation for novices (and potential investors, I'm
guessing -- the site seems quite shoddy at the moment). Graphics experts in the audience, help me
out here: Is this snake oil, or is it really the next big thing?
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This new label, Paracadute Recordings, will take over the distribution and promotion for their
newest album Of The Color of Blue Sky, sales for which may be experiencing an uptick
following the release of
the State Farm-sponsored Rube Goldberg video for This Too Shall Pass, which is
currently at 6.8 million views on YouTube (no small thanks to the fact that it’s
embeddable).
I’m not, you know, in any way celebrating the f—ing evil sons of
b—-es who run things and the awful contracts they gave people. But the truth is
that to tour internationally or to afford to work in the kind of studios we want to work in is not
even close to within the range of of our own pocketbooks. Basically major labels are and have been,
for a long time, essentially big gambling banks.
The move to their own label may mean that fancy recording studios and those international tours
are no longer be a reality for them, at least for the time being. (They are kicking off a new tour in April, but will be staying
domestic.)
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